From koffice  Wed Mar 01 13:39:13 2000
From: Donovan Rebbechi <elflord () panix ! com>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:39:13 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: AW: document filters and usability
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Marko Samastur wrote:

> I know, but if you look at my post again, you might notice I wasn't even
> suggesting that([1]). I think it would be much better, if both (all)
> could use the same format (sort of open format like html).

Obviously, you could have import/export filters for rtf and html. However,
these aren't much good as "native formats". rtf is too "physical" and html
is fairly limited.

Having said that, the Koffice people much to their credit *are* using an
"open format", at least as open as possible. Koffice is xml based. xml is
a general method for defining document formats ( so the fact that two
different document formats are xml based doesn't make them interchangeable
). However, the fact that they've used xml will make it easier to write
filters.

-- 
Donovan